Global change revealed by palaeolimnological records from remote lakes: a review

J Catalan, S Pla-Rabés, AP Wolfe, JP Smol… - Journal of …, 2013 - Springer
Over recent decades, palaeolimnological records from remote sites have provided
convincing evidence for the onset and development of several facets of global …

Fossil midges (Diptera: Chironomidae) as palaeoclimatic indicators for the Eurasian region

SJ Brooks - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2006 - Elsevier
Chironomids (non-biting midges) have been used in palaeoenvironmental studies in
Eurasia since the 1920s. Initially changes in chironomid assemblages were largely …

High mountain lakes: extreme habitats and witnesses of environmental changes

J Catalan, L Camarero, M Felip, S Pla, M Ventura… - limnetica, 2006 - ddd.uab.cat
High mountain lakes offer research opportunities beyond what could be expected from their
quantitative relevance in the Earth system. In this article we present a brief summary of the …

Perspectives for an integrated understanding of tropical and temperate high-mountain lakes

J Catalan, JC Donato Rondon - 2016 - digital.csic.es
High mountain lakes are extreme freshwater ecosystems and excellent sentinels of current
global change. They are likely among the most comparable ecosystems across the world …

Sediment accumulation rates in European lakes since AD 1850: trends, reference conditions and exceedence

NL Rose, D Morley, PG Appleby, RW Battarbee… - Journal of …, 2011 - Springer
Sediment accumulation rate (SAR) is an important physical parameter in all lakes and
increases have been observed in many over the last c. 100 years. This has been ascribed to …

Quantifying recent ecological changes in remote lakes of North America and Greenland using sediment diatom assemblages

WO Hobbs, RJ Telford, HJB Birks, JE Saros… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background Although arctic lakes have responded sensitively to 20th-century climate
change, it remains uncertain how these ecological transformations compare with alpine and …

[HTML][HTML] Recent and subfossil diatom assemblages as indicators of environmental change (including fish introduction) in a high-mountain lake

M Cantonati, R Zorza, M Bertoli, P Pastorino, G Salvi… - Ecological …, 2021 - Elsevier
We investigated modern-littoral and subfossil sediment-core diatoms in the shallow (max
depth 6.4 m) high-mountain Lake Balma in the Orsiera Rocciavrè Nature Park (Italian …

Regionalisation of chemical variability in European mountain lakes

L Camarero, M Rogora, R Mosello… - Freshwater …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We carried out a coordinated survey of mountain lakes covering the main ranges across
Europe (including Greenland), sampling 379 lakes above the local tree line in 2000. The …

Distribution of diatoms, chironomids and cladocera in surface sediments of thirty mountain lakes in south-eastern Switzerland

C Bigler, O Heiri, R Krskova, AF Lotter, M Sturm - Aquatic Sciences, 2006 - Springer
Surface sediments from 30 mountain lakes in south-eastern Switzerland (Engadine,
Grisons) were analysed for subfossil diatom, chironomid, and cladoceran assemblages …

Diatom-based inference of Asian monsoon precipitation from a volcanic lake in southwest China for the last 18.5 ka

Y Li, X Chen, X **ao, H Zhang, B Xue, J Shen… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Diatom in the volcanic lake provides proxy evidence for pH changes that are characterized
by variations in the percentage of acidophilous diatom species. The information regarding …